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Jianguo Liu is a sustainability scientist, human-environment scientist, ecologist, and conservationist.

He has pioneered systems integration for sustainability. He has opened up and advanced new fields of interdisciplinary research. He coined the term “telecoupling” (socioeconomic-environmental interactions over distances) – an umbrella concept that expands and integrates various disciplinary concepts of distant interactions such as animal migration, human migration, trade, investment, technology transfer, knowledge transfer, climatic teleconnection, and disease spread. Liu has been leading international efforts in developing and applying the award-winning telecoupling framework to disentangle the complexity and effects of globalization, climate and environmental change, human activities, and natural disasters in one place on distant places worldwide. He and his team have discovered powerful hidden driving forces such as divorce  and household proliferation behind global biodiversity and resource consumption, as well as unexpected ecological degradation in flagship protected areas.

Liu’s contributions to the fundamental understanding of major global challenges have profound implications for global sustainable development. His innovative research has been translated into effective policy and practice for solving pressing environmental challenges, especially conservation of a global wildlife icon (giant pandas), management of protected areas, large-scale conservation programs, and environmental protection in China that shape the sustainability of the planet Earth and humanity. He has also amplified the impacts of his research through promoting international collaborations and communications, and through nurturing generations of students and junior scholars globally.

Early Life and Education
Liu was born in Hunan Province, Southern China, in 1963. He received a B.S. in plant protection at Hunan Agricultural University in 1983, an M.S. in ecology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing in 1986, and a PhD in ecology (with focus on ecological economics) from the University of Georgia in 1992. He did his postdoctoral study at Harvard University during 1992-1994.

Career
Liu joined the faculty of Michigan State University in 1995. He has been the Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability since 2004 and University Distinguished Professor since 2005. In 2004, he became the founding director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability.

Liu was a visiting scholar (on sabbatical) at Stanford University (2001-2002), Harvard University (2008), and Princeton University (2009). He has also been a research affiliate with the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor since 2002.

Research
Liu has published approximately 400 journal articles, book chapters, and books, in collaboration with hundreds of students and scholars around the world. His publications cover a variety of topics, such as telecoupling, systems integration, sustainability, protected areas, biodiversity, ecosystem services, drivers of environmental change (e.g. divorce and household proliferation), coupled human and natural systems, ecology, ecological economics, conservation, environment, food systems, land use and land cover change, landscapes,  metacoupling, climate change impact, nature-based climate solutions (e.g., natural carbon capture and sequestration), natural resources (e.g., bioenergy, forests, land, water), sociology (e.g., social norms), sustainable development goals, systems modeling, technology (e.g., AI, geographic information systems, machine learning, remote sensing), and wildlife. Below are a few highlights.

Selected publications

 * Liu, Jianguo, Thomas Dietz, Stephen R. Carpenter, William W. Taylor, Marina Alberti, Peter 	Deadman, Charles Redman, Alice Pell, Carl Folke, Zhiyun Ouyang, and Jane Lubchenco (2021). "Coupled Human and Natural Systems: The evolution and applications of an integrated framework". Ambio'  50:1778-1783.
 * Xu, Zhenci, Sophia N. Chau, Xiuzhi Chen, Jian Zhang, Yingjie Li, Thomas Dietz, Jinyan Wang, Julie A. Winkler, Fan Fan, Baorong Huang, Shuxin Li, Shaohua Wu, Anna Herzberger, Ying Tang, Dequ Hong, Yunkai Li and Jianguo Liu (2020). "Assessing progress towards sustainable development over space and time". Nature. 577 (7788): 74-78.
 * Liu, Jianguo (2020) Telecoupling. In: The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Edited by Douglas Richardson, Noel Castree, Michael F. Goodchild, Audrey Kobayashi, Weidong Liu, and Richard A. Marston. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
 * Liu, Jianguo, Vanessa Hull, H. Charles J. Godfray, David Tilman, Peter Gleick, Holger Hoff, Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Zhenci Xu, Min Gon Chung, Jing Sun and Shuxin Li (2018). "Nexus approaches to global sustainable development". Nature Sustainability 1(9):466–476.
 * Liu, Jianguo (2017). "Integration across a metacoupled world". Ecology and Society 22(4):29.
 * Liu, Jianguo; Mooney, Harold; Hull, Vanessa; Davis, Steven J.; Gaskell, Joanne; Hertel, Thomas; Lubchenco, Jane; Seto, Karen C.; Gleick, Peter; Kremen, Claire; Li, Shuxin (2015). "Systems integration for global sustainability". Science 347 (6225):1258832.
 * Liu, Jianguo, Vanessa Hull, Mateus Batistella, Ruth DeFries, Thomas Dietz, Feng Fu, Thomas W. Hertel, R. Cesar Izaurralde, Eric F. Lambin, Shuxin Li, Luiz A. Martinelli, William J. McConnell, Emilio F. Moran, Rosamond Naylor, Zhiyun Ouyang, Karen R. Polens (2013). "Framing sustainability in a telecoupled world". Ecology and Society 18(2):26.
 * Yu, Eunice and Jianguo Liu (2007). "Environmental Impacts of Divorce". PNAS 104(51):20629–20634.
 * Liu, Jianguo, Thomas Dietz, Stephen R. Carpenter, Marina Alberti, Carl Folke, Emilio Moran, Alice N. Pell, Peter Deadman, Timothy Kratz, Jane Lubchenco, Elinor Ostrom, Zhiyun Ouyang, William Provencher, Charles L. Redman, Stephen H. Schneider, William W. Taylor (2007). "Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems". Science 317(5844):1513-1516.
 * Liu, Jianguo & Jared Diamond (2005). "China's environment in a globalizing world". Nature 435:1179-86.
 * Liu, Jianguo, Gretchen C. Daily, Paul R. Ehrlich and Gary W. Luck (2003). "Effects of household dynamics on resource consumption and biodiversity". Nature 421:(530–533).
 * Liu, Jianguo; Marc Linderman; Zhiyun Ouyang; Li An; Jian Yang; Hemin Zhang (2001). "Ecological degradation in protected areas: The Case of Wolong Nature Reserve for Giant Pandas" Science 292(5514):98-101.

Honors and Awards

 * Eminent Ecologist Award, 2022
 * Gunnerus Award in Sustainability Science, 2021
 * World Sustainability Award (with John Elkington), 2021
 * Special Tribute, State of Michigan, 2021
 * Innovations in Sustainability Science Award, 2020
 * Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018
 * Distinguished Landscape Ecologist Award, 2018
 * Fellow, Ecological Society of America, 2018
 * “Highly Cited Researcher”, Clarivate Analytics, 2018
 * Sustainability Science Award, 2017
 * Member, American Philosophical Society, 2015
 * Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010
 * Ralph H. Smuckler Award for Advancing International Studies and Programs, 2007
 * Guggenheim Fellowship, 2006
 * Distinguished Service Award, 2006
 * Distinguished Faculty Award, 2005
 * Teacher-Scholar Award, 2002
 * Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, 2001
 * CAREER Award, 1997